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Research report

Emergency Response Fund Agility: Evaluating a locally led humanitarian funding model

20/08/2026

2 documents

53 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Emergency Response Fund Agility pilot (2021–2025) tested a locally led, rapid-response funding model in Bangladesh, Puerto Rico, and Uganda. The initiative demonstrated that quality, flexible funding—managed by local consortia—can, according to local actors themselves, deliver fast, inclusive, and cost-effective humanitarian aid. The ERF Agility highlights the need for donors to invest in scalable, locally […]

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Intersectional Feminism: A Primer

04/12/2025

2 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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English Description: This primer introduces the concept of intersectional feminism and serves as a guiding document for Oxfam America staff. Intersectional feminism explores multiple and intertwined systems of oppression such as patriarchy, racism, and capitalism through three core pillars: gender, race/ethnicity, and class. Intersectional feminism is crucial to the work of Oxfam America because of […]

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Research report

Centering Women’s Rights Organizations: Evaluative research on Oxfam’s COVID-19 response in Colombia, Iraq, and Kenya

01/07/2024

13 documents

54 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Kurdish, Spanish

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The purpose of this research is to understand the broader context of the humanitarian response to COVID-19 from the perspective of women’s rights organizations (WROs) and to understand how well Oxfam has upheld local humanitarian leadership (LHL) commitments in relation to its partnerships with WROs. From the literature, as well as from Oxfam’s experience in […]

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Evaluation report

The Power of Local Action: Learning and Exploring Possibilities for Local Humanitarian Leadership

29/04/2020

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Power of Local Action is an Oxfam learning compendium on local humanitarian leadership (LHL) that arose out of learning events and global meetings held in 2019 in Nairobi, Mexico City, Jakarta and Istanbul, and draws from the recommendations of partners and Oxfam staff as well as more recent research. The aim is to provide, for […]

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Research report

Women Leading Locally: Exploring women’s leadership in humanitarian action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

29/01/2020

5 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bengali, English

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This report examines women’s leadership in locally led humanitarian action with case studies from Bangladesh and South Sudan. Co-authored with two women’s organizations, Ashroy Foundation of Bangladesh and Rural Women for Development in South Sudan, it seeks to understand whether and how local humanitarian leadership (LHL) can promote or constrain women’s leadership. The report finds […]

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Integrating Gender in Research Planning

21/02/2019

4 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Research can open doors for more gender equitable futures. Gender analysis is built on an understanding of the differences and inequalities in the interrelated lives of women, men, and members of other gender diverse groups, often shaped by unequal power relations and norms that dictate what roles, attitudes and behaviours are considered normal or appropriate. […]

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Emergency Response Fund Agility: Evaluating a locally led humanitarian funding model

Intersectional Feminism: A Primer

Centering Women’s Rights Organizations: Evaluative research on Oxfam’s COVID-19 response in Colombia, Iraq, and Kenya

The Power of Local Action: Learning and Exploring Possibilities for Local Humanitarian Leadership

Women Leading Locally: Exploring women’s leadership in humanitarian action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

Integrating Gender in Research Planning